Our First Lake Claiborne Trip 1/20/13

Jim, Rudd,some other friends, and myself decided to make a trip over to Lake Claiborne from West Monroe to see what it was all about. We had a great time and caught some good fish. Lots of boats and conversations. We fished by the dam and fished really deep. Jim and I fished in the same boat and caught 29(28 in pic with one left in live well). We figured there were alot of the Crappie.com guys out there with us but couldnt put any names with the faces. We were in a Camo War Eagle with a 25 Evinrude E-Tech. Here are some pics of our fish below with the chest about a quarter full of ice.

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OMG !! :yikes that's either a small ice chest or some monster crappie. How much did that one on the end of the table weigh?

Nice catch! WTG! Thanks for the pics.

He was a stud, some of the others were also! Never weigh any fish, just measure them and then use long or short blades!

looks like yall had a good day. keep it up.

Blue Thunder, where have you been? We still fishing weekends around here. Catching some every once in a while. Jim

I've spent the last few months chasing deer and duck. Went duck hunting this morning and wish I had gone fishing. I have to work the boat show next weekend and I'll be out of town the weekend after that but I'll get on them soon. Save me some :)

Nice bunch of fish! Must of had a big bag of ice under them..lol

Was about a half of a box full of fish with no ice.. But like I said about a 1/4 of the chest was ice... All in all about 15-20 great crappie in the box

rudd i was the big guy in the king fisher looking like a shrimp trawler lol cating all the bar fish !!!!

Big John, you were hammering them. Jim

Blue Thunder, might see you at the show. Sambo is looking for a stick sterring boat.

So was the bite fast or did it take all day to get that cooler full? I am wanting to go out but I havent had good luck at all so I was trying to hold out till mid Feb So they get off their beds.

Yep, I told Jim I thought that was you.

Took a while to get a mess..we got there at daylight and left at 1:30-2:00 from what everyone tells me they haven't turned on yet. Guess we will see. Drew

Thanks for the report!

Nice bunch of crappie. I'm heading to Claiborne tomorrow.
I normally fish jigs. Which has been best; jigs or shiners?

Great catch....surprised to see so many blacks coming from Claib..

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Originally Posted by Jim

Big John, you were hammering them. Jim

Blue Thunder, might see you at the show. Sambo is looking for a stick sterring boat.

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I thought Sambo just got a new stick steer last year :dono

Wow very nice

Nice mess of fish. Get the grease hot!!!

Y'all realize this post is from last year.

Nope, we're living in blissful ignorance

Nice mess of fish, looks like some good size to them too! Thanks for the pictures.